Engrain vs Etch - What's the difference?
engrain | etch |
To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.
To engrave a surface.
(figuratively) To make a lasting impression.
To sketch; to delineate.
* John Locke
As verbs the difference between engrain and etch
is that engrain is while etch is to cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.As a noun etch is
.etch
English
Etymology 1
Germanic, cognate with Dutch ets .Verb
- The memory of 9/11 is etched into my mind.
- There are many empty terms to be found in some learned writers, to which they had recourse to etch out their system.
Etymology 2
Noun
- (Mortimer)
